With his inside-the-Beltway media friends singing his praises as a “heavyweight” pick for VP, you might guess that Joe Biden has a fantastic track-record as a vote-getting machine.

Once the fairy dust settles, it will become clear to Democrats that Obama could not have made a worse choice.

Let’s start with the plagiarism problem. It won’t go away no matter how hard Howard Fineman and other liberal reporters try to minimize it. Cheating says something about a candidate’s character — and Biden has a long, nefarious track record as someone who is willing to steal ideas and words, to exaggerate and lie about his background to get ahead. Expect the McCain team to hit hard on this one. People don’t like cheaters.

Second problem: Biden is on record as saying that Obama is not ready to be president! He didn’t suggest this, he came flat out and said it. “Obama is not qualified to be president.” So Obama picked him because. . . . More poor judgment from BO.

Third problem: Biden is Kerry lite. Biden has spent decades in the Senate and has accomplished nothing except to get old and become a senior “force” within the senate itself. Like John Kerry, over the years he has developed a senator’s sense of entitlement. He is lazy and self-indulgent. The reason he is so outspoken is that he feels invulnerable. It’s an affliction suffered by many long-serving senators. Assuming they have a lifetime appointment, they feel they can say whatever is on their little minds without consequence. And they do — sometimes with fatal consequences.

Fourth problem: Biden is a strategic nightmare for Obama. The “president of change” has selected the ultimate insider as his VP? Leading up to this announcement it was become clear even to the most dedicated Obama supporter than their man was drifting away from his core values (as nebulous as they were). Now he picks someone who says the Great One is not ready for the White House, someone who is more about the “politics of the past” than Obama’s favorite ex-foe, Hillary Clinton. What is Obama thinking? This is now a great opportunity for McCain to show voters who is the real president of change. And he can thank Obama for giving him this opening. . . .

Fifth problem: Biden is an uninspiring, uninspired candidate. In the New Hampshire primary, he got a pathetic 638 votes. Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Richardson, even Dennis the Menace did better than Biden. No one want to see this guy, listen to him, vote for him.

Biden is day-old newspaper delivered late, day after day after day. Put it in the cat box. Wrap your fish with it. But no way are you going to read it or vote for it! I promise that after three weeks on the campaign trail, Americans will be zapping Biden whenever he appears on their TV screens. . .and that means fewer adoring eyes for Obama.

Nice work, Barack.

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To paraphrase the brilliant writer, Grace Paley, most of this is true because I wrote it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. Clearly you are challenged in this area, Drew. Your predictable rant for Obama is getting tiresome. As I have said elsewhere, repeating a lie over and over does not make it true. You are fooling no one.

I suggest you find blogs where you are more at home. Perhaps the official Obama web site where you get most of your material might have some suggestions.

Well, Ed, in case no one explained this to you, Sarah Palin was not running in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire. Biden did. He came here often, spent money here, and his own party, the Democrats, thought so highly of him he got 638 votes.

If you are still following my train of thought, that means no one liked Biden and that he was a terrible campaigner.

Saying that New Hampshire people dislike Sarah Palin would be a logical extension of your reasoning — they dislike Palin 638 times more than they dislike Biden.

Perhaps voters liked Biden a lot, but they wanted Hillary Clinton more. Perhaps they liked John Edwards more, or Barack Obama. In a multifield race, it’s specious to say someone’s failure to finish first demonstrates voters don’t like the person, or wouldn’t vote for that person against different opponents.

Biden campaigned, but didn’t spend as much time or money as either Clinton or Obama. In a very tough, multi-candidate race, he got a share of the vote that, ultimately, encouraged him to drop out. Still, more people voted for Biden than for Palin. If Biden’s vote total is an indication of popularity, so is Palin’s. It’s a pointless and silly comparison.

In case no one explained it to you, Palin wasn’t running because Republicans didn’t think she had a chance then, and she probably wouldn’t have much of a chance at heading the ticket now.

If you’re going to make an apples to doughnuts comparison, you shouldn’t be surprised if someone points out there are better sprinkles on the orange you didn’t mention.

Don’t be coy, Ed. He left one week before the voting — certainly if he had any support they would have shown it. They didn’t because he didn’t. Since I was here all during the primary season, I can assure you that Biden had all the excitement and voter appeal of Daley’s dead Democrats.

You also missed an important point — Biden was on the ballot, Palin wasn’t.

And now we have an example of Biden’s good judgment with a campaign chair who was a convicted felon. Great to have someone like Biden a heartbeat from the Oval Office.

Who was the convicted felon? I’m not finding it on the internet. If Biden is getting felons to reform, who are we to dicker?

More famously, let’s remember Biden’s meeting with Slovodan Milosovic, in which he told Milosovic to his face that Milosovic’s actions were war crimes, and must be stopped. Or, let’s remember Biden’s bill that reduced crime in America. Or his work for women.

Biden has a record, a very good one, and I think you should consider it — accurately, even if you’re dismissing it.